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BLIND CHILDREN REQUIRED TO TAKE DRIVER TRAINING…..

I suppose you could post this under “Why your child shouldn’t be in public schools”, but that file is already FULL!!

Anyhow, the CHICAGO TRIBUNE reports

Mayra Ramirez scored an A in driver’s education this year, but sitting through the 10-week class felt like a bad joke to the Curie Metropolitan High School sophomore.

Ramirez is blind. She knows she’s never going to drive. She can think of a lot of things she’d rather be studying than rules of the road, but she didn’t have a choice.

Chicago Public Schools requires all sophomores to take the class and pass a written road-rules exam—a graduation requirement that affects about 30 blind and visually impaired students in specialized programs at Curie and Payton College Preparatory High.

Read the whole thing.

Hat Tip: My brother Victor

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